Focusing on Selene as she tries to prevent the murder of Michael and, later, prevent an all-out war between the Lycans and Vampires, it offers viewers plenty of great world-building, action sequences, and well-written characters. For decades, even vampire movies unrelated to Dracula still lifted heavily from Stoker's novel, following tragic creatures doomed to death just as they discovered love.
The same could be said of werewolves, who had often been relegated more to body horror than anything else.
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Starring: Sam Richardson, Milana Vayntrub, George Basil, Sarah Burns
Directed By: Josh Ruben
#7
Critics Consensus: Frightening, funny, and packed with action, Dog Soldiers is well worth checking out for genre fans -- and marks writer-director Neil Marshall as a talent to keep an eye on.
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Starring: Marshall Bell, Michael Buscemi, Alex Hurt, Addison Timlin
Directed By: Larry Fessenden
#13
Critics Consensus:The Howling packs enough laughs into its lycanthropic carnage to distinguish it from other werewolf entries, with impressive visual effects adding some bite.
The news anchor manages to flee, but she is bitten in the process.
Emma is a country girl who has relocated to the metropolis.
She has killed many people, and her only means of survival is to drink blood. Lastly, with over 17,000 options worldwide, Netflix outshines a lot of paid platforms.
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Typically derived from European legends of shape-shifting creatures of the night, these stories continue to appeal to fans of a range of genres. In their own ways, the vampires and werewolves were reinvented not as monsters but as people with relatable, albeit lofty motivations, but who happened to have curses that imbue them with powers. For werewolves, it typically came in the form of feral monsters who were almost completely separate from their human halves.
Even looking at the success of the likes of Twilight, it's almost impossible to ignore key elements of Wiseman's movie in the story, from vampire societies to their war with werewolves. While there, [More]
Starring: Lon Chaney Jr., Claude Rains, Ralph Bellamy, Evelyn Ankers
Directed By: George Waggner
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Critics Consensus:The Wolf of Snow Hollow treads somewhat unsteadily between horror and comedy, but writer-director-star Jim Cummings' unique sensibilities make for an oddly haunting hybrid.
It also allows you to simultaneously view vampire and werewolf movies. While such movies released before 2000 cannot be compared side-by-side with vampire and werewolf movies in 2020, they deserve praise. It provides him with eternal life but with a need for blood. Rather than being caped characters with eccentric accents a la Bela Lugosi's or Gary Oldman's Dracula, they function more like the covens of Wiseman's franchise.
Enter Lestat, a vampire who develops feelings for Louis and turns him into one.
If this film fails to terrify you, who knows what will?
Plus, the vampire and the legend of the werewolf concepts have been used in the film industry for decades.
The Underworld story then sprawled out into an epic saga, covering a total of five films that include a prequel, Rise of the Lycans, which delves into their medieval feud.
The story revolves around Angela, who fantasizes about crossing the dark forest to find her lonely grandmother.
Synopsis: From Blumhouse and visionary writer-director Leigh Whannell, the creators of the chilling modern monster tale The Invisible Man, comes a [More]
Starring: Christopher Abbott, Julia Garner, Sam Jaeger, Matilda Firth
Directed By: Leigh Whannell
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Critics Consensus: Though Michael J.
Fox is as charismatic as ever, Teen Wolf's coming-of-age themes can't help but feel a little stale and formulaic. As with most movie monsters, the earliest efforts in the genre are among the best, as they open audience eyes to previously unseen worlds of terror, and illuminate a future of sequels, ripoffs, and remakes. The ones that stand out keep people coming back for sequels and rewatches.
The first Underworld movie focuses on Selene, a vampire assassin of the elite "death dealers," as she's tasked by her order with gathering intelligence on and dispatching their Lycan enemies.
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Starring: Boyd Holbrook, Kelly Reilly, Alistair Petrie, Roxane Duran
Directed By: Sean Ellis
#18
Critics Consensus:Wolf misses the jugular after showing flashes of killer instinct early on, but engaging stars and deft direction make this a unique horror-romance worth watching.
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Starring: Dee Wallace, Patrick Macnee, Dennis Dugan, Christopher Stone
Directed By: Joe Dante
#16
Critics Consensus: For a werewolf movie, The Cursed is frustratingly lacking in killer instinct -- but its intriguing additions to well-worn mythology add some necessary bite.
When she approaches him, they're both attacked by the Lycans, with Lucian managing to bite Corvin, leaving Selene to realize he'll soon transform into a wolf at the next full moon. However, when it comes to cinema, it wasn't uncommon for horror monsters to be "typecast" in a sense, always imagined in similar ways. Even when these movies aren't set in modern times, the way they embrace feeling like modern cinema, instead of capturing an older aesthetic, matches Underworld.
But one girl wants to resurrect Elizabeth Bathory. Throughout the series, fans are given plenty of characters on both sides of the war to both love and hate, centering individual characters above the war itself. Considered by many fans as the golden era, movies of vampires and werewolves released before the year 2000 have been dubbed as classics.
For vampires, this came in the form of countless Bela Lugosi copycats, suave gentlemen who charmed their victims before turning them.
In a world without Underworld, it's tough to imagine the success of franchises like Vampire Diaries and Twilight, which almost feel like the 2003 movie repackaged for teens.
Her problems begin when she comes to her childhood home for some much-needed relaxation and soul searching.
Before we dive into the best vampire-werewolf movies before 2000, let’s see what makes them unique.
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Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Emily Blunt, Hugo Weaving, Geraldine Chaplin
Directed By: Joe Johnston
Since the days of Hollywood's Golden Age classics like Nosferatu, The Wolf Man, and Dracula, vampires and werewolves have been two of cinema's greatest fantasy and horror monsters.
As the franchise progressed, it helped develop a world where these monsters were shown to be more powerful and influential, delving into more of their respective goals, abilities, and social power.
While films like Blade were distinctly of the '90s, Underworld emerged as the definitive dark fantasy horror franchise of the 2000s, at least as far as vampire and werewolf fans were concerned.
In this digital age, a lot of people can watch vampire-werewolf movie series for free, thanks to the Internet.
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Starring: Michael J. Fox, James Hampton, Scott Paulin, Susan Ursitti
Directed By: Rod Daniel
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Critics Consensus: Suitably grand and special effects-laden, The Wolfman suffers from a suspense-deficient script and a surprising lack of genuine chills.
When Angela encounters a rugged hunter in the woods, she meets someone who will change her life.
Don’t be scared by the title because what follows is far worse!
Synopsis: When his brother dies, Larry Talbot (Lon Chaney) returns to Wales and reconciles with his father (Claude Rains). Although Buffy the Vampire Slayer was a great series, it still imagined these monsters as wild, often disorganized creatures of the night. 1941’s The Wolf Man, with Lon Chaney Jr., remains the fast and furriest, though we also pay tribute to its 1935 progenitor Werewolf of London.
Since ol’ Wolfy got a late start compared to other Universal Classic Monsters, at a time when their influence was beginning to wane, the studio was quick to put him in crossover sequels that were the style at the time.